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What does superstition mean?

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Noun
  1. A belief, not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that future events may be influenced by one's behaviour in some magical or mystical way.
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A handful of profiteers, cashing in on this occasion to barter superstition, are ready to tout articles relating to funerals.
Instead, debate is often overwhelmed by superstition, folk wisdom, prejudice and self-serving agendas.
As Europe basked in the Enlightenment, Popish superstition and its stablemate monarchical absolutism appeared to be receding into the past.
It is largely secondary knowledge and includes much herbal lore as well as superstition.
We had been schooled to dismiss them as being objects of religion, ritual and superstition.
I would die to free our people from the chains of bigotry and superstition.

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